Those who walk the Kumano Kodo route enter into a spiritual landscape embodying the fusion of two religious traditions: Buddhism and Shintoism. Hatley walked the route with Dr. Kumi Kato, environmentalist and professor at Japan’s Wakayama University, in 2010.

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